Russia: Opium, the new religion

[Michael Pugliese]

http://www.bostonphoenix.com/alt1/archive/music/reviews/03-07-96/SLEEPYHEAD.
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...The sharply focused numbers on Communist Love Songs are often dryly funny
("I'm gonna grow my hair real long and smoke a ton of grass/And stay up all
night every night, discussing race and class," is just one of the gems in
"The Communist Love Song"), but they harbor their share of heartache and
uncertainty. O'Rourke's voice betrays more helpless frustration than
vindictiveness when he sings, "You and yours are gonna pay for all the way
you made me feel." And when he gets to the chorus -- "I want you to stay
more than I want you to leave/I don't have much money, but there's so much
of me to steal" -- he's unabashedly needy...
Michael Pugliese